Borghild Bryhn was born on 23 July 1883 in Kongsvinger.

[1] Borghild Bryhn studied with Gina Oselio and Nina Grieg.

Her public debut was in 1906 at a concert in Kristiania (called Oslo after 1925) featuring songs by Grieg, accompanied on piano by the composer, Edvard Grieg, himself.

[1] Her operatic debut was in 1907 in Kristiania in the opera Sjømandsbruden by Sigwardt Aspestrand [no].

In 1908, at Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, she sang the role of Brünnhilde in Hans Richter and Percy Pitt's English language production of Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen[1] In the period 1908-1916, Borghild Bryhn Langaard made several gramophone recordings, including art songs by Grieg, and excerpts from her operatic repertoire.